The Diary of an Ennuyée

The Diary of an Ennuyée by Mrs. Jameson is about a young woman's first-person account of her travels from England to France. Excerpt: «Calais, June 21.—What young lady, traveling for the first time on the Continent, does not write a „Diary?“ No sooner have we slept on the shores of France—no sooner are we seated in the gay salon at Dessin's, than we call, like Biddy Fudge, for „French pens and French ink,“ and forth steps from its case the morocco-bound diary, regularly ruled and paged, with its patent Bramah lock and key, wherein we are to record and preserve all the striking, profound, and original observations—the classical reminiscences—the thread-bare raptures—the poetical effusions—in short, all the never-sufficiently-to-be-exhausted topics of sentiment and enthusiasm, which must necessarily suggest themselves while posting from Paris to Naples.»